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Orchester Johannes Fehring

Band, AT
Jazz and Pop
A.k.a. Das Orchester Lutz Albrecht

One of Austria's most sucessfull backing orchestra's of the fifties and early sixties. Johannes Fehring assembled Vienna's best studio musicians to build a big orchestra that played various styles of easy listening, swing, schlager and soul jazz on records as well live in Vienna's Volksgarten. Fehring and his orchestra were present on lots of records, mostly Schlager, in Germany and Austria. In the mid-sixties Fehring started to build new and funkier combos like Johannes Fehring & The Chicks and around 1971 Austria's TV library orchestra ORF Big Band. The core of the big band were members of this orchestra like Karl Drewo, Hans Salomon, Hans Löw (2) and Felix Hanusik, Robert Demmer. A late member of the orchestra was also US Jazz Trumpeter Art Farmer during his time in Vienna. Other famous members were Austrian Jazz export Joe Zawinul (before he left Austria to USA) and Knef arranger and backing orchestra leader Hans Hammerschmid (before he left Vienna to Berlin). Early members not in the database: Fred Reithofer, Walter Borovsky

Members

	Joe Zawinul key, p, ep 1932-2007 AT
	Art Farmer tr, fh 1928-1999 US
	Jimmy Woode b 1926-2005 US
	Hans Salomon sax *1933 AT
	Dick Murphy tr
	Viktor Plasil dr, perc 1926-2009 AT
	Karl Drewo ts, sax 1929-1995 AT
	Hans Hammerschmid p *1930 AT
	Slide Hampton tb *1932 US
	Johannes Fehring 1926-2004 AT
	Claudius Alzner p *1930 AT
	Rudolf Hansen b *1924 AT
	Karl Kowarik as 1922-2002 AT
	Ernst Kugler tb 1923-1985 AT
	Toni Stricker vn *1930 AT
	Theo Ferstl tr 1910-1981 AT
	Robert Demmer tr 1926-2011 AT
	Hans Löw sax AT
	Teddy Windholz sax 1924-2011 AT
	Erwin Böss
	Fritz Meisinger tb AT
	Felix Hanusik sax AT
	Lotty Rank voc *1929 AT
	Willi Marton sax AT
	Eugen Landwehr tb AT
	Hans Mertl tr AT
	Joszi Klimek sax AT
	Franz Trepesch tb AT
	Edi Vitouch voc AT
	Alfons Kühn
	Josef Skruzny sax, voc AT
	Franz Mikuliska dr AT
	Karl Dobnik tr AT
	Carlo Gonzi b
	Franz Reinisch tr AT
	Josef Fischer sax AT
	Rolf Tragauer tr AT
	Herbert Witz sax AT
	Alfred Richter sax AT
	Hans Fiala